Regulatory and Legal Aspects of the use of Cloud Technologies in the Libraries of Ukraine

The relevance of the research. The information society requires the improvement of legal regulation of information relations, the processes of accumulation, processing, distribution and storage of information, the growth of the role of information law in the activities of various social institutions. The wide implementation of cloud technologies in various spheres of social life of society requires improvement of the legal framework for providing and receiving cloud services, which allow to simplify the access of library users to digital content, in which libraries play an important role. The relevance of this research is related to the widespread use of cloud technologies in Ukrainian libraries, as well as rapid changes in Ukrainian legislation regarding digitization and digital transformation. The purpose of the article is to determine the peculiarities of the legal regulation of the use of cloud technologies in modern libraries of Ukraine. The methodology of the research is based on the application of content analysis of current legal acts, systemic and comparative approaches, which ensures the reliability of the results obtained. The results. The analysis of the current legal framework regarding the provision of cloud services and the use of cloud technologies in various social and communication institutions of Ukrainian society in the context of its digitalization and digital transformation has shown that in recent years several important legal acts have been put into effect in Ukraine regarding legislative regulation of the research object. It was determined that the adopted legislative acts are aimed at harmonizing Ukrainian legislation with the legislation of the European Union regarding the implementation and use of the latest information technologies. The scientific novelty of the study consists in an attempt to generalize the provisions of the existing legal framework of Ukraine regarding the implementation of cloud computing and to consider these provisions in relation to the prospects of their application in the activities of Ukrainian libraries in the process of their use of cloud technologies. The obtained results will make it possible to prepare practical recommendations for raising the awareness of library workers regarding the legal regulation of the implementation of cloud technologies in libraries, which will help to activate the process of digital modernization of Ukrainian libraries. The practical significance lies in the possibility